The need for a Plan B

Back in South Africa and time seems to have flown past, suddenly were on our fourth, and last week of our 4x4 holiday . From the border we drove south firstly to  Bligh River Canyon and then onto Drakensberg just south of Johannesburg -this is a region where the mountains that edge the eastern side of the isolated kingdom of Lesotho dramatically abut the flat plains of South Africa and was one of Megans must do's.  Fantastic scenery as you can drive in around the base of the peaks.

Whilst we were there we also had an early celebration for Megans birthday (since we're going to be in different countries when it occurs in a few weeks time) by going up market for one night and staying in a luxury lodge. Key selling point of the chosen place was the included superb six course dinner followed by three course breakfast the next day - this was B&B in style - even I, who am not much of a foody, was impressed. As an aside I also found it equally impressive that most of the guests were staying several nights and managing to eat that amount every night: for both of us once was definitely enough - at least for awhile.

After our day of luxury it was back to the reality of travel with a drive of several hours back up the highways to Johannesburg where the plan was (i) that night for Megan to catch a plane out to Ghana (where she was due to join a tour in a couple of days time) and (ii) the next day for me drive the 4x4 the 1400kms back to Cape Town before collecting my bike which I'm told has safely arrived there.  Unfortunately when we got out to the airport there was a snag, Megans visa was wrong and she was refused boarding to the plane. Ok we thought,  make a quick visit to three Ghanaian embassy the next day and it will all be sorted.  Oh niave people. Certainly it can be fixed they said, but only back in Australia,  just ship your passport back there.  That obviously wasnt going to happen in the required time-frame so its time to come up with plan B.